7 killed in suicide attack at Pakistan lawmaker’s outhouse

At least seven people were killed and several others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the outhouse of a ruling PML-N member on Wednesday.

At least seven people were killed and several others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the outhouse of a ruling PML-N member on Wednesday. The lawmaker escaped the attack.

File photo of PML-N lawmaker Sardar Amjad Khosa.(Official website: National Assembly of Pakistan)

About 20-odd people, mostly party activists, were at the outhouse of Sardar Amjad Khosa, a member of the national assembly, at Taunsa Sharif, some 350km from lahore, in Dera Ghazi Khan district when the attack took place, killing seven people on the spot, officials said.

The injured have been shifted to a hospital where six of them are reportedly critical.

Khosa escaped the attack as he was not present in the outhouse. Those killed in the attack were his close associates.

The lawmaker condemned the attack and expressed the government’s resolve to fight terrorism. “Our government’s resolve against terrorism will not end and the Operation Zarb-e-Azb will continue (in North Waziristan) till elimination of the last terrorist,” he said.

Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah said there was no police security at the outhouse as Khosa was not present there. “Security moves with the the lawmaker,” he said.

In August, Punjab home minister Shuja Khanzada was killed in a suicide attack at his residence in Attock district of Punjab.